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Happy Thanksgiving — Do You Know Where the Cheez Whiz is?
Today is Thanksgiving, so I have to run get my last minute items from the grocery store — silver polish and brown sugar. It took me all day Monday and Tuesday to make a long shopping list for...
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Why Jesus Came
A couple of Sundays ago at church, it was Tommy Shelton’s job to prepare us for communion. We have communion every Sunday at our church — I grew up in Southern Baptist churches where communion was once...
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Christmas
I promised you a picture of Flamingo Joe and his little chicks in their Christmas outfits and here they are: They look a little pooped out because they are. I took this picture after the Christmas Eve...
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A New Year’s for Posterity
New Year’s Eve this year will be remembered as the year we did not catch the house or surrounding woods on fire by a floating lantern. I came outside at about this point in the launch: “What is that?”...
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The Hope Springs Eternal Bamboo and Sunflower Farm
We have some friends who own a florist’s shop on Memorial (The Family Flower Shoppe, if you’re in Tampa and want to send Dad some baby’s breath and tulips on Father’s Day — well tulips might not be in...
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The Hope Springs Eternal Doggie B & B
Skipper is visiting our house this week month. For some reason, my friend Heidi thinks that she is allowed to leave town for a month every summer and go visit people that she loves. It’s really quite...
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The Hope Springs Eternal Dude Ranch
Several weeks ago Shelya mentioned that she was going to have a pony at her daughter, Keller’s, 2nd birthday party. Shelya’s family lives in a standard Florida subdivision where pony rides through the...
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The Hope Springs Eternal Schoolhouse
Casey started third grade today. We were a little nervous letting him ride his bike to school this morning. But he said he was ready, so we stifled our overprotective urges. A child has to grow wings...
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The Hope Springs Eternal Rodent Rescue Center
I was looking forward to a great night’s sleep last Wednesday night. I had been feeling puny for several days with the laryngitis and not sleeping well, so Wednesday night I was ready to fall into one...
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Tropical Storm Debby, Part Deux
It’s 10:50 p.m. Do you know where Debby is? At 10:02 this morning, our front yard started making an appearance again. “Hello yard! Where ya’ been?” Unfortunately, the driveway off the property was...
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